Free Download Joy James, "Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons"
English | ISBN: 0745350488 | 2024 | 144 pages | PDF | 32 MB
Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various items of equipment available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags, to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarisation has, unsurprisingly, been shown to unjustly impact on Black communities and is associated with increased killings by police . No wonder there have been calls to ‘defund the police’ echoing across the streets of America.